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I have recently done this in textArea control and it took me the whole weekend to figure out the complexities when dealing with styling as well and escaping tags using nothing but xform extensions and xpath. Pretty complex but I can preload a textarea with a template and have controls change data in the textarea as well as have users change data in the textarea keeping things in synch.
Brian Steuhl home office: 732-961-3187 From: Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 5:45:03 PM Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset Stephanie, Just trying to understand the use case here. What you are doing in this example is pointing to so-called complex content, i.e. an element containing "stuff" other than just text. Right now, XForms disallows that: you can only point to elements without nested content, or attributes. So the question is: what do you do with that content, both ways: * when reading from the instance to the control * when writing to the instance from the control What's your algorithm for those operations? -Erik On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hold data from an instance? I'm sorry, I don't know exactly what you're looking for. Right now if you bind a nodeset to a textarea, it will display all of the contents of the nodeset, but I want, upon changes to the nodeset in the textarea, that the appropriate node be updated in the instance. That doesn't happen now - it just gets reset to the original instance's data. > > So if I have > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>bob</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > I would see (if I do ref="instance('myInstance')/files" in the xforms:textarea) > > Name1 > Steve > > Name2 > Bob > > In the textarea. And then if I make changes in the textarea, like bob becomes Ted, I want it to update the instance to be: > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>Ted</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > It has to be displayed in a textarea, also (or something that looks like one to the normal user at least) :) > > Thanks, > Stephanie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:22 PM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: [ops-users] Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset > > Stephanie, > > What would the nodeset do? > > -Erik > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Is there support anywhere for a textarea to handle a nodeset? Or, >> would it be difficult to extend the existing textarea component to >> support this via XBL? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stephanie >> >> -- >> You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] >> mailing list. >> To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] >> For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help >> OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws >> >> > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. > To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] > For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help > OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws > > -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws |
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I have coded an xForm that allows a textarea control to update input controls as well as input controls update the textarea control. I will put a demo screencast on my website in about an hour or so.
Brian Steuhl home office: 732-961-3187 From: Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 9:52:52 AM Subject: [ops-users] RE: Re: RE: Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset Erik, We have a lot of those "file" fields, split into 2 inputs which are bound to filename and createdBy. Some projects can have a great many of these, like 50 or so, and there are multiple, semi-related projects. It is tedious for the user to update all of the inputs, if something like the path name changes (so the folder that contains the files). So they would like to put them into a textarea so they can be edited all at once using copy/paste,etc. Since it seems the textarea is fine at displaying the contents of the <files> nodeset, I was hoping there would be a way that updates in the textarea would be reflected in the instance's nodeset. The user would also like to be able to press a trigger to put the files BACK into the inputs from the textarea as well. I am trying to figure out a good, clean and efficient way to make all this happen. I hope that answered your question... Thanks, Stephanie -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:45 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset Stephanie, Just trying to understand the use case here. What you are doing in this example is pointing to so-called complex content, i.e. an element containing "stuff" other than just text. Right now, XForms disallows that: you can only point to elements without nested content, or attributes. So the question is: what do you do with that content, both ways: * when reading from the instance to the control * when writing to the instance from the control What's your algorithm for those operations? -Erik On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hold data from an instance? I'm sorry, I don't know exactly what you're looking for. Right now if you bind a nodeset to a textarea, it will display all of the contents of the nodeset, but I want, upon changes to the nodeset in the textarea, that the appropriate node be updated in the instance. That doesn't happen now - it just gets reset to the original instance's data. > > So if I have > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>bob</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > I would see (if I do ref="instance('myInstance')/files" in the > xforms:textarea) > > Name1 > Steve > > Name2 > Bob > > In the textarea. And then if I make changes in the textarea, like bob becomes Ted, I want it to update the instance to be: > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>Ted</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > It has to be displayed in a textarea, also (or something that looks > like one to the normal user at least) :) > > Thanks, > Stephanie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik > Bruchez > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:22 PM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: [ops-users] Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset > > Stephanie, > > What would the nodeset do? > > -Erik > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Is there support anywhere for a textarea to handle a nodeset? Or, >> would it be difficult to extend the existing textarea component to >> support this via XBL? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stephanie >> >> -- >> You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] >> mailing list. >> To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] >> For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help >> OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws >> >> > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. > To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] > For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help > OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws > > -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws |
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Here is link to screen cast http://btmsoftwaresolutions.com/screencast.aspx showing textarea control being updated from other controls and still being able to apply formatting and changing text in textarea while at same time updating input controls from textarea. Sorry for the video quality. When I have time I will redo.
Brian Steuhl home office: 732-961-3187 From: Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 9:52:52 AM Subject: [ops-users] RE: Re: RE: Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset Erik, We have a lot of those "file" fields, split into 2 inputs which are bound to filename and createdBy. Some projects can have a great many of these, like 50 or so, and there are multiple, semi-related projects. It is tedious for the user to update all of the inputs, if something like the path name changes (so the folder that contains the files). So they would like to put them into a textarea so they can be edited all at once using copy/paste,etc. Since it seems the textarea is fine at displaying the contents of the <files> nodeset, I was hoping there would be a way that updates in the textarea would be reflected in the instance's nodeset. The user would also like to be able to press a trigger to put the files BACK into the inputs from the textarea as well. I am trying to figure out a good, clean and efficient way to make all this happen. I hope that answered your question... Thanks, Stephanie -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:45 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset Stephanie, Just trying to understand the use case here. What you are doing in this example is pointing to so-called complex content, i.e. an element containing "stuff" other than just text. Right now, XForms disallows that: you can only point to elements without nested content, or attributes. So the question is: what do you do with that content, both ways: * when reading from the instance to the control * when writing to the instance from the control What's your algorithm for those operations? -Erik On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hold data from an instance? I'm sorry, I don't know exactly what you're looking for. Right now if you bind a nodeset to a textarea, it will display all of the contents of the nodeset, but I want, upon changes to the nodeset in the textarea, that the appropriate node be updated in the instance. That doesn't happen now - it just gets reset to the original instance's data. > > So if I have > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>bob</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > I would see (if I do ref="instance('myInstance')/files" in the > xforms:textarea) > > Name1 > Steve > > Name2 > Bob > > In the textarea. And then if I make changes in the textarea, like bob becomes Ted, I want it to update the instance to be: > > <instance id="myinstance"> > <project> > <files> > <file> > <filename>name1</filename> > <createdBy>steve</createdBy> > </file> > <file> > <filename>name2</filename> > <createdBy>Ted</createdBy> > </file> > </files> > </project> > </instance> > > It has to be displayed in a textarea, also (or something that looks > like one to the normal user at least) :) > > Thanks, > Stephanie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik > Bruchez > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:22 PM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: [ops-users] Re: Textarea to handle a nodeset > > Stephanie, > > What would the nodeset do? > > -Erik > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Is there support anywhere for a textarea to handle a nodeset? Or, >> would it be difficult to extend the existing textarea component to >> support this via XBL? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stephanie >> >> -- >> You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] >> mailing list. >> To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] >> For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help >> OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws >> >> > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. > To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] > For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help > OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws > > -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the [hidden email] mailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:[hidden email] For general help: mailto:[hidden email]?subject=help OW2 mailing lists service home page: http://www.ow2.org/wws |
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Hi Brian, That looks to be along the same lines as what I am trying to
do. Would you mind sharing a bit how you were able to do it? Also, are you
using the standard orbeon textarea, or are you using a different one? Thanks, Stephanie From: Brian Steuhl
[mailto:[hidden email]] Here is link to screen cast http://btmsoftwaresolutions.com/screencast.aspx showing
textarea control being updated from other controls and still being able to
apply formatting and changing text in textarea while at same time updating
input controls from textarea. Sorry for the video
quality. When I have time I will redo. Brian Steuhl home office: 732-961-3187 From: Stephanie Hall (TT)
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